Trevor Price, PhD, Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, an organization of many of the world's most eminent scientists and the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. This year, 60 scientists from around the world were elected Fellows or Foreign Members of the Society for their outstanding contributions to science.
“Through their careers so far, these researchers have helped further our understanding of human disease, biodiversity loss and the origins of the universe,” said Sir Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society, in a statement. “I am also pleased to see so many new Fellows working in areas likely to have a transformative impact on our society over this century, from new materials and energy technologies to synthetic biology and artificial intelligence. I look forward to seeing what great things they will achieve in the years ahead.”
Price is renowned for his work on the origin of species and the impact of evolutionary processes on biodiversity. With exceptional intellectual versatility, Price has been effective in combining theoretical analyses with hands-on fieldwork. He has elucidated the roles of sexual and natural selection in the evolution of reproductive isolation and identified mechanisms of selection in Darwin's finches, and the evolution of new bird species. He has inferred timing and order of divergence in traits during adaptive radiation, the role of environment in the evolution of mating signals, and the factors controlling the pace of biodiversity buildup.
